Responding to Stephanie Grace's opinion piece, "New trash contracts a win-win for Landrieu," reader TinFoilHatGuy commented, in part: Times-Picayune archiveSDT recently renegotiated its contract with New Orleans. ". . . I have recently visited our county waste facility. Who has ever done that to check up on folks? Crazy, I know. I talked to the county waste director. I...
Responding to Stephanie Grace's opinion piece, "New trash contracts a win-win for Landrieu," reader TinFoilHatGuy commented, in part:
SDT recently renegotiated its contract with New Orleans.". . . I have recently visited our county waste facility. Who has ever done that to check up on folks? Crazy, I know. I talked to the county waste director. I asked him how much the amount of waste per person has been reduced over the years. He said, "Reduction? It has never gone down as long as I have been here and I have been here for more than a decade." Then he told me waste per person is always going up due to packaging. Packaging. You mean the packaging that is being recycled and reduced by designing smarter packages? He told me maybe such things are happening, but we live in a more and more throwaway world and more and more of our goods are coming from farther and farther away. This all means more trash. So before we get all crazy about recycling this and waste to energy plant that, how about we really find out how much total trash we create on a per person average in each parish and community basis, and work toward reducing that. . ."
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